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Today, manufacturers are practical, creative, open to opportunities, and ready to work with the technologies available now. This special report looks at advanced manufacturing technology as it is now, and where it is leading today's manufacturers.

As an add-on to Mastercam Mill or Router, Mastercam Art lets users create 3D sculpted images from 2D artwork. Input can range from fully developed CAD models to artwork scanned from a napkin. A suite of tools allow for easy and quick changes...

UK-based B.C. Barton Ltd., a provider of design and manufacturing solutions for hot and cold presswork and weldedfabrication products, recently migrated from Camtek's Peps Fab CAM software to JetCam Expert. The company did so as a result of Camtek...

Associate Professor Imme Ebert-Uphoff (left) and graduate student Paul Bosscher examine a mock-up illustrating the kinematic ability of an array of joints that could create a "formable crust" of digital clay  a type of computeraided design...

Charmilles' Sigma software manages and produces EDM data. This includes organizing jobs and orders, job management, status control of all objects in the process chain, off-set management, magazineposition assignment, and data transfer to machines...

Automation isn't a new concept. AMERICAN MACHINIST has been discussing the topic since its infancy. We're even in the Baby Boomer Edition of Trivia Pursuit ("What word, derived from the Greek for self-acting, first appeared in the August 21, 1948...

WMPC Series controllers handle temperature and process inputs and provide up to seven zone controls in a single wallmount package. The inputs are individually configurable for each zone. Scaling and offset of current and voltage signals are user...

The PACSystems DSM324i motion controller combines motion features with fiberoptic-command interfaces to a Fanuc servo line. According to the manufacturer, this improves machine-cycle rates and accuracy as compared with mechanical, pneumatic, and...